September 2016
Start Talking Science – Chemical Heritage Foundation
Start Talking Science is an unprecedented opportunity for you to meet local scientists and academics and discuss their groundbreaking research. Interested in dark matter? Talk about it with a particle physicist. Intrigued by circadian rhythms and sleep patterns? Discuss it with a neuroscientist! Wondering about generating energy through fusion, engineering viruses to heal spinal cord injuries, or how to get students interested in engineering? Start Talking Science is an amazing opportunity to have these one-on-one conversations: the possibilities are endless! No registration is required. About Start…
Find out more »Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine – 2016 Introductory Symposium
Please join The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine for this year’s Introductory Symposium on September 28.
Find out more »Designing Babies? Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Dr. Robert Klitzman is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics, and for 10 years directed the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He has conducted research and written about a variety of ethical issues in medicine and public health to promote…
Find out more »Paula Findlen – Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimenter
This talk explores the circumstances that led the teenage Algarotti to become a celebrity experimenter in relation to debates about Newtonian science in Italy in the early eighteenth century.
Find out more »Jan Golinski – Synthesis Lecture
Join us on Thursday, September 29, as former CHF fellow Jan Golinski discusses his new book, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science (University of Chicago Press, 2016). One of the 19th century's most famous men of science, Humphry Davy was known for discovering sodium, potassium, and other elements, and for inventions including the miners’ safety lamp. But he was an enigmatic figure to his contemporaries and has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him.…
Find out more »Ernst Fehr – The Brain’s Functional Network Architecture Reveals Human Motives
Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information that predicts different motives behind the same altruistic act with high accuracy. In contrast, mere activity in these regions contains no information about motives. Empathy-based altruism is primarily characterized by a positive connectivity from the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to the anterior insula (AI), whereas reciprocity-based altruism additionally invokes strong positive connectivity from the AI to the ACC and even stronger positive connectivity from the…
Find out more »WHEATS – Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, & Science
The workshop provides an outstanding forum for presenting and refining works-in-progress for graduate students and recent PhDs who study the environment, agriculture, technology or science from a historical perspective.
Find out more »14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. The meeting was founded in 2002 to foster an intercollegial intellectual community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate student research. The New York Academy of Medicine, together with Columbia University and Princeton University, is pleased to host the 14th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine on September 30…
Find out more »Dartmouth Institute for Cross-disciplinary Engagement Launching Conference
ICE’s launching conference will bring to the Dartmouth campus leading scientists, humanists, and public intellectuals working on fundamental questions at the forefront of cross-disciplinary research. Presentations will include topics such as the nature of free will, the multiverse, the search for meaning through the arts and the sciences, the possibility of alien life, and the future relationship between the sciences and the humanities. The conference will take place from September 30 - October 1, 2016, and is free and open…
Find out more »Friday Lab: The Contemporary Archaeology of Homelessness, Pelham Bay Park, NYC
Ever wonder what a contemporary archaeology project looks like? Well this is your chance to delve into the fascinating world of modernity and study “us”, “here”, and “now” as an archaeologist. Starting on Friday September 30th, every Friday from 12:30 to 4:30 we will be working with contemporary artifacts from an abandoned 1970s and 1980s homeless encampment in Pelham Bay Park, located in the Bronx. During this time you will learn traditional lab techniques by processing “non-traditional” material culture. You…
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